BORN HULL 1894. SON OF HENRY AND LILY PARSONS, OF 2 POPLAR GROVE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL. AN ASSISTANT WOOD MACHINIST (1911 CENSUS) LIVING WITH HIS AUNT, AT ALEXANDR HOUSE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. A HULL POLICE CONSTABLE, WHEN WAR BEGAN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT FOR THE DARDENELLES ON 14/07/1915. KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 21. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, EMILY DAVIES AND DAUGHTER IRENE, (WHO DIED ON 27/12/1916), AT 7 CRANBOURNE AVENUE, SPRING STREET, HULL.
HE IS REPORTED MISSING AND PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 09/11/1918. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE SPYVEE STREET & ON ST MARKS STREET MEMORIALS.
